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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Global Warming History

Thanks to Rose for this graph on historical global temperature averages

Global climate is an important issue to debate, but it is sad that what is communicated often has a clear shifting towards the worst-case scenarios and the doomsday theories. There is no reason to scare people by giving them only one side of the argument.http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/sanandaji9.html

Yeah, 7:05, and what I get 10-1 is scare tactics and doomsday scenarios and 100 year charts. I guess if I keep going through the pages I'd get to one that showed this chart or its equivalent. All the arguments that run counter to global warming get short shrift.

The fascinating thing (which was pointed out to me) is that the peaks in temperature coincide with great advances in human history.

Why is it that there is hardly a credible scientist not on the payroll of right wing think tanks and the oil companies who doesn't believe our civilizations and our planet's current life are in big trouble because of the climate crisis we're already demonstrably in?

As for normal variations in climate, the indicators that go well beyond temperature show that we're way past that.

Is this about ignoring a crisis because government might have to do something about it, and you guys all hate government? Be sure to explain that to your grandchildren.

As far as I know there were no climatologists thousands, much less millions of years ago. I am not convinced that this "climate change" is not just another small slice of a climate cycle that repeats every couple thousand years or so.